If you’ve recently been in a waiting room -- any waiting room -- you might have thumbed through an issue of US Weekly. (Don’t worry, we don’t judge.) If you’re like me, the first thing you flip to is the “Stars -- They’re Just Like Us!” section. Apparently, Alec Baldwin does laundry, Kaley Cuoco pumps her own gas, and Beyonce inhales oxygen and exhales carbon dioxide.

The Pulitzer committee is on line one . . .

Cast of FXX's "The League" (AP Photo)

But, aside from having consciousness, there is an area in which many of the glitterrati are actually just like you and me: They love fantasy football.

Just Google “celebrity fantasy football league” and see the names that pop up -- from Playboy playmates to “Turtle” from “Entourage” (Turtle!) to “Mad Men” star Jon Hamm.

It’s estimated that anywhere between 20-40 million people play in fantasy football leagues, so it makes sense that more than a few are household names. One study even estimated that fantasy football costs employers $6.5 billion per year in lost employee productivity. Is that why “Mad Men” took so long to pump out some new episodes?

Either way, there’s no denying that fantasy football is a full-fledged cultural phenomenon. I mean, how many other “hobbies” are the basis for a sitcom (FXX’s “The League”)? Unless you consider “Dancing with the Stars” a sitcom and “sadness” a hobby, then none.

One of the stars of “The League,” comedian Steve Rannazzisi, shared some of his personal fantasy football experiences with us and, ironically, they are, indeed, just like ours.

When asked how his team did last year: “Not great. I’m not great at it. I’ve gotten worse since ‘The League’ has been on.”

Rannazzisi describes being a fantasy commissioner as “the most thankless job in the world,” and just like anyone who has been a commissioner, he has a depressing anecdote:

“In a real situation in my high school league one time, we had a guy out with his family pumpkin-picking, and he challenged another guy to a fight. And they were trying to figure out which pumpkin patch he was at so that they could fight … at a pumpkin patch … with kids.”

The really sad thing is about half the people reading this have a story that can “top” that.

Rannazzisi also said he gets asked four or five times a day on Twitter to be the commissioner of random peoples' leagues ("Sure, yeah, absolutely -- I would love to run a stranger's league -- 'cause that's the most fun thing you can do...") and constantly gets asked for advice:

"People think that a) I know what I'm doing...like I'm an expert or something, which, I don't even think the experts know what they're doing."

Truer words have never been spoken, Steve.

But it’s not just actors who partake in this five-month fantasy binge -- athletes are right there with them. Oakland Raiders' RB Maurice Jones-Drew is probably the most famous football player who obsesses over his fantasy team, and big-name guys in other sports argue over flex spots and stat corrections, too. St. Louis Cardinals ace Adam Wainwright, who has finished in the top three in N.L. Cy Young voting three times, told us he had four fantasy teams last season.

“I had two leagues that were very good -- I lost in the semifinals, and I lost in the finals,” Wainwright said. “And then I had two leagues that were completely terrible, awful, embarrassments to the game of fantasy football.”

Yes, Wainwright was drafting and managing four fantasy teams during the Cards’ World Series run last year. He even posted a 2.85 ERA in September and 2.57 ERA in the postseason, so don’t blame him for any of that $6.5 billion in lost productivity.

And lest you think Wainwright is just some casual owner who may or may not remember to set his lineup on off-days, here was his response when asked a throw-away question about whom he’d take with the No. 1 pick this season: “Ah, it would depend on what type of league it was -- if it was a PPR league or if this was a standard league.”

Only true fantasy nerds, er, enthusiasts, would start their answer that way.

It’s not as if fantasy football needs celebrity endorsements to legitimize it, but the fact it keeps being referenced in movies and often comes up in celebrity interviews only shows how big it has become.

Who knows -- maybe in a year or two there will be a section in the gossip magazines showing celebrities ignoring their families during drafts, cursing Lamar Miller and angrily posting on message boards over proposed trades. It can be called: “Stars -- They’re Just As Bad As Us!”